Plymouth Colony

Plymouth Colony was an English colony in North America that existed from 1620 to 1691, with New Plymouth serving as its capital. The colony was founded by a group of Puritan Separatists known as the "Pilgrims", and it was one of the earliest successful English colonies in the Americas. The Pilgrims established friendly relations with the Pokanoket tribe of Chief Massasoit with the help of their Native American liaison Squanto, who taught them how to grow crops, engage in the fur trade, and survive in the Americas. The Plymouth Colony would later go to war with the Pokanoket's mother tribe, the Wampanoag, in "King Philip's War" of 1675-78, and the colony merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691 to form the colony of Massachusetts.